Now that Donald Trump has secured the Republican presidential nomination, he needs to move on to bigger things, such as owning the Cincinnati Reds. How great would that be?

We’re not winning. We’re not winning in the bullpen, we’re not winning in the lineup, we’re not winning at the turnstiles. These people running this team now are incompetent. We’ve gone from the playoffs to a laughingstock in two years. Get ‘em out! Get ‘em outta here!

Trump would Make The Reds Great Again! Maybe by lobbing a few hundred mil at the payroll. People would love him. He would have a very good relationship with everyone, Cardinals and Cubs included. He’d be ahead in every poll. All the time.

It’d be good if the political media would cover politics as politics, not as sports. Trump-Clinton isn’t Red Sox-Yankees on Sunday night. The heathen media was as wrong about Donald Trump as it was about the ’69 Mets and the Jets of Joe Namath. That’s what happens when we cover a presidential primary season like a football season. Any Given Primary Election Day.

The TV Heads already are cawing about what a showdown it’ll be between Trump and Clinton. A knockdown drag-out, a dogfight etc. Great TV. Here they are now. Entertain us.

We’re more interested in who’s winning or losing in the polls than in what the candidates actually say. Unless they’re slandering an opponent or insulting a gender or an ethnic group. What might a Trump presidency look like?

Beats me. But it’d be great TV. It’s already great TV.

It was way back two weeks ago that everyone believed Donald Trump wouldn’t have the requisite delegates to be the Republican nominee, and boy what a game, er convention, it was gonna be in Cleveland. As the New York Times pointed out, the stats-driven website FiveThirtyEight on Tuesday gave Hillary Clinton a 90 percent chance of beating Bernie Sanders in the Indiana primary.

Do tell.

(This is the big weakness in judging anything only with numbers, in replacing actual human beings with data. Take note, SABR-stars: If you really want to know what’s going on, don’t just feed equations into a machine. Get your boots on the ground and talk to the people doing the participating.)

We haven’t covered Trump like a serious politician and leading candidate for the Republican nomination, which he has been for months. We’ve watched him as a ratings winner. Networks don’t have him on to discuss how he might handle the most important job in the world. They have him on because he says outrageous things. We’ve trivialized the process in the name of ratings and entertainment.

It’s the same rationale used to explain the Dallas Cowboys on Monday Night Football when they’re 3-8. Trump might as well be running for forensic pathologist on CSI: Miami.

I admit to watching the Republican debates just to see Trump make faces when Marco Rubio and Ted Cruz ripped him. I watched every Republican debate on Fox News partly to see if Trump and Megyn Kelly would go at it. Guilty as charged.

In this campaign season, we’ve wanted to be entertained, not informed. We want bold declarations. Somebody. . . do something! Same as sports. Only this isn’t sports. It’s supposed to be informative, not an excuse to watch TV.

We get the media we deserve, and right now we deserve Trump’s candidacy to be covered like a season of "The Apprentice." I wish the media would stop pandering to the public, for page views and ratings points, and start informing it. Unless we stop covering political campaigns the way we cover the Cincinnati Bengals, that’s not going to happen.